100m

1983-08-08, wind: -0.3
  Result Name Country
1. 10.07 Carl Lewis USA

200m

1983-08-14, wind: +1.1
  Result Name Country
1. 20.14 Calvin Smith USA

400m

1983-08-10
  Result Name Country
1. 45.05 Bert Cameron JAM

800m

1983-08-09
  Result Name Country
1. 1:43.65 Willi Wülbeck FRG
2. 1:44.20 Rob Druppers NED
3. 1:44.27 Joaquim Carvalho Cruz BRA
4. 1:44.87 Peter Elliott GBR
5. 1:45.12 James Robinson USA
6. 1:45.46 Agberto Conceiço Guimarães BRA
7. 1:45.74 Hans-Peter Ferner FRG

5000m

1983-08-14
  Result Name Country
1. 13:28.53 Eamonn Coghlan IRL

10000m

1983-08-09
  Result Name Country
1. 28:01.04 Alberto Cova ITA
2. 28:01.18 Werner Schildhauer GER
3. 28:01.26 Hansjörg Kunze GDR
4. 28:01.37 Martti Vainio FIN
5. 28:01.93 Gidamis Shahanga TAN
6. 28:06.78 Carlos Lopes POR
7. 28:07.53 Nick Rose GBR
8. 28:09.05 Christoph Herle FRG
9. 28:09.92 Mohamed Kedir ETH
10. 28:11.13 Bekele Debele ETH
11. 28:11.57 Antonio Prieto ESP
12. 28:15.03 Steve Jones GBR
13. 28:17.28 Mark Nenow USA
14. 28:18.39 Fernando Mamede POR

110m h

1983-08-13, wind: +1.3
  Result Name Country
1. 13.42 Greg Foster USA
2. 13.46 Arto Bryggare FIN
3. 13.48 Willie Gault USA

400m h

1983-08-09
  Result Name Country
1. 47.50 Edwin Moses USA
2. 48.61 Harald Schmid FRG

3000h

1983-08-12
  Result Name Country
1. 8:15.06 Patriz Ilg FRG
2. 8:17.03 Boguslaw Maminski POL
3. 8:17.75 Colin Reitz GBR
4. 8:18.32 Joseph Mahmoud FRA
5. 8:20.01 Graeme Fell GBR
6. 8:20.11 Julius Korir KEN
7. 8:20.45 Henry Marsh USA
8. 8:21.17 Mariano Scartezzini ITA
9. 8:21.32 Domingo Ramón ESP
10. 8:21.33 Hagen Melzer GER
11. 8:21.50 Tommy Ekblom FIN

4x100m

1983-08-10
  Result Name Country
1. 37.86 Emmit King,
Willie Gault,
Calvin Smith,
Carl Lewis
USA
2. 38.37 Stefano Tilli,
Carlo Simionato,
Pierfrancesco Pavoni,
Pietro Mennea
ITA
3. 38.41 Andrey Prokofyev (RUS),
Nikolay Sidorov (RUS),
Vladimir Muravyov (KAZ),
Viktor Bryzgin (UKR)
Soviet Union
4. 38.51 Andreas Knebel,
Thomas Schröder,
Jens Hübler,
Frank Emmelmann
GDR
5. 38.56 Werner Bastians,
Christian Haas,
Jürgen Evers,
Andreas Rizzi
FRG
6. 38.72 Krzysztof Zwolinski,
Zenon Licznerski,
Czeslaw Pradzynski,
Marian Woronin
POL
7. 38.75 George Walcott,
Raymond Stewart,
Leroy Reid,
Colin Bradford
JAM
8. 38.98 Thierry François,
Marc Gasparoni,
Antoine Richard,
Jean-Jacques Boussemart
FRA

4x400m

1983-08-14
  Result Name Country
1. 3:00.79 Sergey Lovachov (UZB),
Aleksandr Troshchilo (BLR),
Nikolay Chernyetskiy (RUS),
Viktor Markin (RUS)
Soviet Union
2. 3:01.83 Erwin Skamrahl,
Jörg Vaihinger,
Harald Schmid,
Hartmut Weber
FRG

High jump

1983-08-13
  Result Name Country
1. 2.32 Gennadiy Avdeyenko UKR
Tyke Peacock USA

Pole vault

1983-08-14
  Result Name Country
1. 5.70 Sergey Bubka UKR

Long jump

1983-08-10
  Result Name Country Wind
1. 8.55 Carl Lewis USA +1.2
2. 8.29 Jason Grimes USA +0.6

Triple jump

1983-08-08
  Result Name Country Wind
1. 17.42 Zdzislaw Hoffmann POL +0.6

Shot put

1983-08-07
  Result Name Country
1. 21.39 Edward Sarul POL
2. 21.16 Ulf Timmermann GER

Discus throw

1983-08-14
  Result Name Country
1. 67.72 Imrich Bugár CZE
2. 67.36 Luis Mariano Delís CUB

Hammer throw

1983-08-09
  Result Name Country
1. 82.68 Sergey Litvinov RUS
2. 80.94 Yuriy Syedikh RUS
  Result Name Country
1. 89.48 Detlef Michel GER

Decathlon

1983-08-13
  Result Name Country
1. 8714 Daley Thompson GBR
2. 8599 Jürgen Hingsen FRG
3. 8513 Siegfried Wentz FRG
4. 8469 Uwe Freimuth GDR
5. 8207 Stephan Niklaus SUI